Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one. — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease! — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For six and a half years, I had responsibility for leading the Labour party policy on education and delivering on our promise… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour. — Galina Ulanova Copy Share Image
Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with… — William Penn Copy Share Image
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism,… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing],… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Common endeavour, solidarity and respect are the hallmarks of the Labour tradition. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
In reality, when it comes to female frontbenchers, Labour are still starting the race well in the lead. — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it. — John Prescott Copy Share Image
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image